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Bethany McGlyn is a PhD candidate and Jefferson Scholars Foundation Fellow at the University of Virginia studying craft labor and material culture in early national Philadelphia. In spring and summer 2025, Bethany will be the Esther Ann McFarland Fellow at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and a dissertation fellow at the Winterthur Museum and Library. Bethany has worked in curatorial departments at Historic Rock Ford, Winterthur, Historic Annapolis, and the National Parks Service, and was the inaugural Curatorial Fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. Her work has been supported by the Alexandria Association, Furniture History Society, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, The Decorative Arts Trust, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Vernacular Architecture Forum, Homewood Museum at Johns Hopkins University, and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.  

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